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Thursday, 30 January 2014

Good Things

There was an interview on the radio yesterday morning, a short 4-minute piece about a nail bar in Dollis Valley, north London. The weekly pop-up is a project involving young, talented girls and women, supported by charity Art Against Knives. Katy Dawe, one of the organisers, spoke about how projects like this give girls - some caught up in gang culture - a safe space with support that might just make things better.

My little brother Tim died 12 years ago today as a result of knife crime. Something like Dollis Dolls Nail Bar proves that good things happen, no matter how much bad has been before. For more information on Art Against Knives, click here.

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Mother, wino, sometimes in that order. Author of The Knackered Mother's Wine Club book. Spent best part of a decade travelling the globe sniffing out wines for a living as a wine buyer for a big supermarket. Then spent most of the next half-decade pregnant. Now run my own wine business. Want to share wine knowledge in the hope that other knackered mothers are interested in what's in my glass at the end of the day. Strictly no insipid wines allowed. Unless too tired to care.

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